Wolfgang Maier (doctor)

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Wolfgang Maier (born January 13, 1949 ) is a German psychiatrist and psychotherapist .

Academic and professional career

Wolfgang Maier first studied mathematics and economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He completed this course in 1973 with diplomas. In the same year he began studying medicine , also at the University of Munich. In 1980 he received his doctorate medicinae . In 1981 he went to the Psychiatric University Hospital in Mainz as a clinical scientist and doctor, senior physician and later senior physician . In 1990 he completed his habilitation in psychiatry . At the same time, she worked in the USA (especially Cornell Medical School in New York City and Washington University Medical School in St. Louis , Missouri ). He is a student of the late American psychiatrists Gerald Klerman and Theodore Reich .

In 1995 he was appointed to the chair for psychiatry and psychotherapy (C4) and was appointed director of the clinic and polyclinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Bonn . He retired in 2018. Since then he has been medical director for research and further education at the Gezeitenhaus Clinic in Bonn.

He was the spokesman for the “Dementia” (since 2005) and “Degenerative Dementia” (since 2007) competence networks funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

From 2012 to 2014 he was President of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN). In 2004, 2013 and 2014 he was President of the DGPPN Congresses. In 2000 Maier also founded the “Genetics in Psychiatry” section of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and the “Prevention of Mental Disorders” section of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA).

Since 2010 he has been the chief editor of the leading medical journal in Germany, Der Nervenarzt . Maier also acts as co-editor of the European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience .

Wolfgang Maier is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Neuroscience Section). He is also a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) (biomedical class) and a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences

Focus of work

Wolfgang Maier has been one of the initiators of genetic research into mental disorders using modern biometric and molecular methods since 1985 . His work focuses on the one hand on researching the genetic causes, manifestations and conditions of the therapeutic response of affective and schizophrenic disorders. On the other hand, he researches the risk factors, early symptoms and the development of dementia and develops treatment guidelines for dementia. Since 2010 he has been the spokesman for the steering committee for the development of the S3 treatment guidelines “Dementia” (employed by the AWMF). He was a member (2007/08) of the Bonn application commission for the establishment of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) . Today's work focuses on the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of severe mental and neuropsychiatric illnesses.

Other activities

In 2002 he founded the Fliedner Clinic in Berlin together with Klaus Hildemann .

Awards

Fonts

  • Prevention of mental illnesses (together with J. Klosterkötter), 2017. Schattauer / Thieme Verlag
  • Understanding Alzheimer's & Dementia. The guide of the Competence Network Dementia: Diagnosis, Treatment, Everyday Life, Care (together with J. Schulz and S. Weggen), 2009, Trias Verlag
  • Author / co-author of more than 1000 medical-scientific publications in international journals.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CV Prof. Maier on the Leopoldina website
  2. ^ Ebba Hagenberg-Miliu: Interview with Prof. Wolfgang Maier. In: General Anzeiger Bonn. July 30, 2013, accessed August 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ http://psychiatrie.uni-bonn.de/unser_team/professoren/index_ger.html
  4. ^ Membership list of the section "Genetics in Psychiatry" of the WPA. (PDF) In: wpanet.org. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  5. ↑ The neurologist - incl. Option to publish open access. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .
  6. ^ List of editors of the European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Member entry of Wolfgang Maier (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 15, 2016.
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Maier. with picture. Member entry at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 16, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Maier. with picture. Member entry at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 16, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Call for applications for the 2013 Hans-Jörg Weitbrecht Prize. Accessed on August 7, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Call for applications for the 2014 Kurt Schneider Science Award. Accessed on August 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1949